The troubled belle who was Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20030413
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Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In the summer of 1919, during the courtship that would lead to marriage the following year, Zelda Sayre wrote Scott Fitzgerald a letter in which she observed,"Men think I'm purely decorative, and they're just fools for not knowing better . . . I love being rather unfathomable . . . Men love me cause I'm pretty and they're always afraid of mental wickedness and men love me cause I'm clever and they're always afraid of my prettiness One or two have even loved me cause I'm lovable, and then, of course, I was acting."

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